士师记 4:21

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

希伯的妻子雅億取了一根帳棚的橛子，手裡拿著鎚子，靜悄悄地走到西西拉那裡，把橛子釘在他的太陽穴裡，直釘入地裡；因為西西拉疲乏熟睡，就這樣死了。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
西 西 拉 疲 乏 沉 睡 。 希 百 的 妻 雅 亿 取 了 帐 棚 的 橛 子 ， 手 里 拿 着 锤 子 ， 轻 悄 悄 地 到 他 旁 边 ， 将 橛 子 从 他 鬓 边 钉 进 去 ， 钉 入 地 里 。 西 西 拉 就 死 了 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ But Sisera himself ran away to the tent where Jael lived. She was the wife of Heber, one of the Kenite family groups. Heber's family was at peace with Jabin king of Hazor. ¹⁸ Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, "Come into my tent, master! Come in. Don't be afraid." So Sisera went into Jael's tent, and she covered him with a rug. ¹⁹ Sisera said to Jael, "I am thirsty. Please give me some water to drink." So she opened a leather bag of milk and gave him a drink. Then she covered him up. ²⁰ He said to her, "Go stand at the entrance to the tent. If anyone comes and asks you, ‘Is anyone here?' say, ‘No.'" ²¹ But Jael, the wife of Heber, took a tent peg and a hammer and quietly went to Sisera. Since he was very tired, he was in a deep sleep. She hammered the tent peg through the side of Sisera's head and into the ground. And so Sisera died. ²² At that very moment Barak came by Jael's tent, chasing Sisera. Jael went out to meet him and said, "Come. I will show you the man you are looking for." So Barak entered her tent, and there Sisera lay dead, with the tent peg in his head. ²³ On that day God defeated Jabin king of Canaan in the sight of Israel. ²⁴ Israel became stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan until finally they destroyed him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

took: Judges 3:21, Judges 3:31, Judges 5:26, Judges 15:15, 1 Samuel 17:43, 1 Samuel 17:49, 1 Samuel 17:50, 1 Corinthians 1:19, 1 Corinthians 1:27

a nail: One of the spikes of the tent. See note on Exodus 35:18.

and took: Heb. and put

smote: Psalms 3:7

he died: Judges 5:27

Reciprocal: Judges 7:13 - a cake 2 Samuel 18:14 - thrust them Psalms 107:40 - contempt

Cross-References

Genesis 4:11
And now you will be cursed in your work with the ground, the same ground where your brother's blood fell and where your hands killed him.

Genesis 4:12
You will work the ground, but it will not grow good crops for you anymore, and you will wander around on the earth."

Genesis 31:27
Why did you run away secretly and trick me? Why didn't you tell me? Then I could have sent you away with joy and singing and with the music of tambourines and harps.

Job 21:12
They sing to the music of tambourines and harps, and the sound of the flute makes them happy.

Isaiah 5:12
At their parties they have lyres, harps, tambourines, flutes, and wine. They don't see what the Lord has done or notice the work of his hands.

Amos 6:5
You make up songs on your harps, and, like David, you compose songs on musical instruments.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a nail of the tent,.... When she perceived he was fast asleep, and it being now put into her heart to kill him, having an impulse upon her spirit, which she was persuaded, by the effect it had upon her, that it was of God; not filling her with malice and revenge, but a concern for the glory of God, the interest of religion, and the good of Israel, she took this method to effect the death of this enemy of God, and his people; having no arms in the house, for the Kenites used none, she took up an iron pin, with which her tent was fastened to the ground:

and took a hammer in her hand; which perhaps she knew full well how to handle, being used to drive the pins of the tents into the ground with it:

and went softly unto him; lest she should awake him

and smote the nail into his temples: as he lay on one side, these being the tenderest part of the head, from whence they have their name in the Hebrew language, and into which therefore a nail, or iron pin, might be more easily driven:

and fastened it into the ground; she smote the nail with such force and violence, that she drove it through both his temples into the ground on which he lay; and then, as it seems, from Judges 5:26; cut off his head, to make sure work of it:

for he was fast asleep and weary; and so heard not; when she came to him:

so he died; not in the field of battle, but in a tent; not by the sword, but by a nail; not by the hand of a man, but of a woman, as Deborah foretold, Judges 4:9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If we can overlook the treachery and violence which belonged to the morals of the age and country, and bear in mind Jael’s ardent sympathies with the oppressed people of God, her faith in the right of Israel to possess the land in which they were now slaves, her zeal for the glory of Yahweh as against the gods of Canaan, and the heroic courage and firmness with which she executed her deadly purpose, we shall be ready to yield to her the praise which is her due. See Judges 3:30 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 4:21. A nail of the tent — One of the spikes by which they fasten to the ground the cords which are attached to the cloth or covering.

He was fast asleep and weary. — As he lay on one side, and was overwhelmed with sleep through the heat and fatigues of the day, the piercing of his temples must have in a moment put him past resistance.